Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- 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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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