Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
