Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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