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
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
