The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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
"Decoded"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
