Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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