Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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