Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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