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
Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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
