The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
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 don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
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