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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
