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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
