When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
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
