Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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