Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
