At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
