Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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