Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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