A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
