Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
