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
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
