A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
