The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
