To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
