Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
