Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
