A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
