The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
