Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- 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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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