The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
