Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
