Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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."
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
