Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
