Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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