Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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 shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
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
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