Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
