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

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

-René Char 

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

-Søren Kierkegaard "Fear And Trembling; Repetition"

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

-Jay Z "Decoded"

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

-Dudley Moore

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

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

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

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

-Jean Cocteau

All good poems are victories over something.

-Stephen Dunn

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