Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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