Quotations
Poet
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- 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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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