Quotations
Poet

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke

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

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden

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