Quotations
Poet

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović

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