The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
