A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
