Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- 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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
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