A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
