Quotations
Poet
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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