Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
