A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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
