Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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