Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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