Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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