A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
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."
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
