Quotations
Poet

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran

When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot

A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato

Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char

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