Quotations
Poet
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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