Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
