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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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