At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
