The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs