Quotations
Poet

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

-Jean Cocteau

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

-T. S. Eliot "Dante"

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

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

-Søren Kierkegaard "Fear And Trembling; Repetition"

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

-Edmond De Goncourt

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

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"

All good poems are victories over something.

-Stephen Dunn

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

-Allen Ginsberg

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