The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
