Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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