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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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"
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
