Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
