The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
