Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
