Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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