Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
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