Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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 poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
