Quotations
Poet
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
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