Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- 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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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