Quotations
Poet

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-Paul Éluard 

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

-Jean Cocteau

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

-Jane Kenyon

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

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

-Jean Cocteau

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.

-Edmund Burke

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

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

-Alfred De Musset "Le Poète déchu"

Always be a poet, even in prose.

-Charles Baudelaire

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