Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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