Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
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