A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
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"
