At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
