The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
