He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
