Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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