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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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."
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 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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
