A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Quotations
Poet
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."
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
