Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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