Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
