Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
