At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
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
