Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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