Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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