Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
