Quotations
Poet
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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