Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
