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
Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
