Quotations
Poet

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

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

-Dudley Moore

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

-Walt Whitman

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."

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

-Edmond De Goncourt

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

-Criss Jami

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

-George Sand

A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.

-Etinne Gilsun

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