A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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
