Quotations
Poet

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken

No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden

The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin

Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire

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

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