A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
