Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
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