A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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."
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
