Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
