Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
