The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
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"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
