Quotations
Poet
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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