The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
