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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
