Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
