Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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