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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
