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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
