Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
