To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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
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
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
