Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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