A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
