Quotations
Poet
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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