Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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