The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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."
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
