The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
