The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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."
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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"
