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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
