A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Quotations
Poet
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
