Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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 is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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