Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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