He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
