Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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