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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
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"
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."
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
