Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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