Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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