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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
