Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
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"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
