Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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