Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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
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