Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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
