Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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