Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
