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
Quotations
Poet
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
