The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
