Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
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