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WRITERS > diarist > Edmond de Goncourt
A poet is...
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Source: In 20,000 Quips and Quotes by Evan Esar, 1968.
-- Edmond de Goncourt, (May 26 1822-1896), French diarist; He collaborated on social histories and novels with his brother Jules, e.g., Madame Bervaisais, 1869.