Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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