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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
