Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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