Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
