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"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
