Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
