Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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