A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
