Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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