A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
