Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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