Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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 poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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