A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
