The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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"
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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."
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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
