A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
