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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
