The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
