The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
