Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
