Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- 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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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