The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
