Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
