Quotations
Poet
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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