Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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