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
Quotations
Poet
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
