Poetry(71)

"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world."
Russell Baker

"Always be a poet, even in prose."
Charles Baudelaire

"God is the perfect poet."
Robert Browning

"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing."
John Cage

"A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof."
Rene Char

"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
Gilbert K. Chesterton

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
John Ciardi

"The poet doesn't invent. He listens."
Jean Cocteau

"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."
Jean Cocteau

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
Jean Cocteau