Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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