Quotations
Poet

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

-H. L. Mencken

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

-W. H. Auden "The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.

-Edmund Burke

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

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

-Jean Cocteau

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

-René Char 

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

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

-Dudley Moore

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