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 never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
