To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
