Littéraire. Qui s'adonne à la poésie, fait preuve de qualités poétiques.
Citations avec poète
Jean Aicard (Toulon 1848-Paris 1921) Académie française, 1909 Je suis l'insecte aimé du poète et des dieux. Poèmes de Provence, la Cigale , Lemerre
Jean Ajalbert (Clichy-la-Garenne 1863-Cahors 1947) Platon avait tort de vouloir proscrire les poètes. Même les mauvais vers n'ont jamais fait de mal à personne. Lettre à G. Walch, Delagrave
Émile Chartier, dit Alain (Mortagne-au-Perche 1868-Le Vésinet 1951) Le vrai poète est celui qui trouve l'idée en forgeant le vers. Préliminaires à l'esthétique, Gallimard
Henri Frédéric Amiel (Genève 1821-Genève 1881) Les poètes célibataires sont une peste publique ; ils troublent, sans le savoir et le vouloir, tous les cœurs féminins sans emploi. Journal intime, 12 juillet 1866
Anonyme On naît poète, on devient orateur. Nascuntur poetae, fiunt oratores.
Commentaire Axiome parodié par Brillat-Savarin.
Aristophane (Athènes vers 445-vers 386 avant J.-C.) Pour les petits enfants, l'éducation c'est le maître d'école ; pour les jeunes gens, c'est le poète. Les Grenouilles, 1054 (traduction H. Van Daële)
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte 1808-Paris 1889) Où les historiens s'arrêtent, ne sachant plus rien, les poètes apparaissent et devinent. Une page d'histoire
Charles Baudelaire (Paris 1821-Paris 1867) Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées […] Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher. Les Fleurs du Mal, l'Albatros
Charles Baudelaire (Paris 1821-Paris 1867) Il n'existe que trois êtres respectables : le prêtre, le guerrier, le poète. Savoir, tuer et créer. Mon cœur mis à nu
Léon Bloy (Périgueux 1846-Bourg-la-Reine 1917) Le signe incontestable du grand poète, c'est l'inconscience prophétique, la troublante faculté de proférer par-dessus les hommes et le temps, des paroles inouïes dont il ignore lui-même la portée. Belluaires et Porchers, Stock
Nicolas Boileau dit Boileau-Despréaux (Paris 1636-Paris 1711) C'est en vain qu'au Parnasse un téméraire auteur Pense de l'art des vers atteindre la hauteur […] Si son astre en naissant ne l'a formé poète […] Pour lui Phébus est sourd, et Pégase est rétif. L'Art poétique
Yves Bonnefoy (Tours 1923-Paris 2016) Il est aisé d'être poète parmi les dieux. L'Improbable, Mercure de France
Jean Cocteau (Maisons-Laffitte 1889-Milly-la-Forêt 1963) Académie française, 1955 Dès qu'un poète se réveille, il est idiot. Je veux dire intelligent. Opium, Stock
Jean Cocteau (Maisons-Laffitte 1889-Milly-la-Forêt 1963) Académie française, 1955 Un rêveur est toujours mauvais poète. Le Rappel à l'ordre, Stock
Jean Cocteau (Maisons-Laffitte 1889-Milly-la-Forêt 1963) Académie française, 1955 Le poète se souvient de l'avenir. Journal d'un inconnu, Grasset
Gabriele D'Annunzio (Pescara 1863-Gardone Riviera 1938) Ô Poète, divine est la Parole ; en la pure Beauté le ciel mit toute notre joie ; et le Vers est tout. O Poeta, divina è la Parola ; nella pura Bellezza il ciel ripose ogni nostra letizia ; e il Verso è tutto. L'Isotteo, Epodo, IV
Salvador Dalí (Figueras 1904-Figueras 1989) Le poète doit, avant qui que ce soit, prouver ce qu'il dit. Métamorphose de Narcisse, José Corti
René Descartes (La Haye, aujourd'hui Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, 1596-Stockholm 1650) On pourrait s'étonner que les pensées profondes se trouvent dans les écrits des poètes plutôt que des philosophes. La raison en est que les poètes écrivent par les moyens de l'enthousiasme et de la force de l'imagination : il y a en nous des semences de science, comme dans le silex, que les philosophes extraient par les moyens de la raison, tandis que les poètes, par les moyens de l'imagination, les font jaillir et davantage étinceler. Cogitationes privatae
Robert Desnos (Paris 1900-Terezín, Tchécoslovaquie, 1945) Plus que poli pour être honnête Plus que poète pour être honni. Corps et biens, Gallimard
Eugène Grindel, dit PaulEluard (Saint-Denis 1895-Charenton-le-Pont 1952) Le poète est celui qui inspire bien plus que celui qui est inspiré. Ralentir Travaux, Préface , Éditions surréalistes
Jean Giono (Manosque 1895-Manosque 1970) Le poète doit être un professeur d'espérance. L'Eau vive, Gallimard
Friedrich Hölderlin (Lauffen, Wurtemberg, 1770-Tübingen 1843) Mais ce qui reste est l'œuvre des poètes. Souvenir Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter. Andenken
Commentaire La pensée d'Horace est celle-ci : « Tu ne retrouveras pas, même épars, les membres du poète (Non invenias etiam disjecti membra poetae), s'il est traduit en prose. » - Un volume, posthume, de Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, s'intitule Disjecta membra, qui a un autre sens.
Commentaire Ces trois mots servent à caractériser l'extrême susceptibilité des poètes et des gens de lettres.
Victor Hugo (Besançon 1802-Paris 1885) Le poète en des jours impies Vient préparer des jours meilleurs. Il est l'homme des utopies ; Les pieds ici, les yeux ailleurs. Les Rayons et les Ombres, Fonction du poète
Victor Hugo (Besançon 1802-Paris 1885) Un poète est un monde enfermé dans un homme. La Légende des siècles, Un poète
Victor Hugo (Besançon 1802-Paris 1885) Quand le poète peint l'enfer, il peint sa vie. Les Voix intérieures, Après une lecture de Dante
Pierre Jean Jouve (Arras 1887-Paris 1976) Le Poète est un diseur de mots. […] Le diseur de mots est celui qui dans l'extrême veille, harponne un équivalent du rêve. En miroir, Mercure de France
Juvénal en latin Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Aquinum, Apulie, vers 60 après J.-C.-vers 130) Que la nature lui en refuse le don, et c'est l'indignation qui dictera au poète ses vers. Satires, I, 79 Si natura negat, facit indignatio versum.
Pierre Choderlos deLaclos (Amiens 1741-Tarente 1803) On peut citer de mauvais vers, quand ils sont d'un grand poète. Les Liaisons dangereuses
Alphonse de Prât deLamartine (Mâcon 1790-Paris 1869) Le poète est semblable aux oiseaux de passage Qui ne bâtissent point leurs nids sur le rivage, Qui ne se posent pas sur les rameaux des bois ; Nonchalamment bercés sur le courant de l'onde, Ils passent en chantant loin des bords et le monde Ne connaît rien d'eux que leur voix. Nouvelles Méditations, le Poète mourant
Isidore Ducasse, dit le comte de Lautréamont (Montevideo 1846-Paris 1870) Un pion pourrait se faire un bagage littéraire en disant le contraire de ce qu'ont dit les poètes de ce siècle. Poésies, II
Stéphane Mallarmé (Paris 1842-Valvins, Seine-et-Marne, 1898) Ô poètes, vous avez toujours été orgueilleux ; soyez plus, devenez dédaigneux. Proses de jeunesse, Hérésies artistiques, l'Art pour tous
Jean Paulhan (Nîmes 1884-Neuilly-sur-Seine 1968) Académie française, 1963 Que le poète obscur persévère dans son obscurité, s'il veut trouver la lumière. In préface des Contes de Noël Devaulx Cercle du livre précieux
Charles Péguy (Orléans 1873-Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, 1914) L'homme qui est poète à vingt ans n'est pas poète, il est homme ; s'il est poète après vingt ans, alors il est poète. Clio, Gallimard
Jean Pellerin (Pontcharra, Isère, 1895-Le Châtelard 1921) Foutons ses huit jours au poète ! Le Bouquet inutile, Gallimard
Odilon Jean Périer (Bruxelles 1901-Bruxelles 1928) […] Tel, un poète où Dieu s'engage Et reste pris. Poèmes, Gallimard
Platon (Athènes vers 427-Athènes vers 348 ou 347 avant J.-C.) C'est chose légère que le poète, ailée, sacrée Ion, 534b (traduction L. Méridier)
Marcel Proust (Paris 1871-Paris 1922) Et toutes les âmes intérieures des poètes sont amies et s'appellent les unes les autres. Contre Sainte-Beuve, Gallimard
Raymond Queneau (Le Havre 1903-Paris 1976) Le vrai poète n'est jamais inspiré : il se situe précisément au-dessus de ce plus et de ce moins, identiques pour lui, que sont la technique et l'inspiration. Odile, Gallimard
Raymond Queneau (Le Havre 1903-Paris 1976) […] le poète, car en un sens il n'y en a jamais qu'un […]. Les Derniers Jours, Gallimard
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (Lausanne 1878-Pully, près de Lausanne, 1947) Le poète est à la fois le plus solitaire et le moins solitaire des hommes. Remarques, Rencontre
Arthur Rimbaud (Charleville 1854-Marseille 1891) Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et déraisonné dérèglement de tous les sens. Correspondance, à Paul Demeny, 15 mai 1871
Pierre de Ronsard (château de la Possonnière, Couture-sur-Loir, 1524-prieuré de Saint-Cosme-en-l'Isle, près de Tours, 1585) Il y a autant de différence entre un Poète et un versificateur qu'entre un bidet et un généreux coursier de Naples. La Franciade
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (Boulogne-sur-Mer 1804-Paris 1869) Il se trouve […] dans les trois quarts des hommes, comme un poète qui meurt jeune, tandis que l'homme survit. Portraits littéraires, Millevoye
William Shakespeare (Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, 1564-Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, 1616) Le fou, l'amoureux et le poète sont farcis d'imagination. Le Songe d'une nuit d'été, V, 1, Thésée The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. A Midsummer Night's Dream, V, 1, Theseus
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