Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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