Quotations
Poet

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

-Jean Cocteau

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

-Jean Cocteau

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

-T. S. Eliot "Dante"

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

-Dorothy L. Sayers "Busman's Honeymoon"

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

-Criss Jami

Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.

-Kathy Skaggs

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

-Yevgeny Yevtushenko "The Sole Survivor"

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

-Dudley Moore

When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.

-T. S. Eliot

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