Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
