Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- 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
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'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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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