Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
