Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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