Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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"
