Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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