A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
