Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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"
