The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
