Quotations
Poet
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
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