A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.