Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
