The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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."
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
