Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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 poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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