Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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