Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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