The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
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 poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
