A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
