A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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
