Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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