To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 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"
