A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
