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
Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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"
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 poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
