Quotations
Poet

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden

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

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

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

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden

Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs

When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot

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

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

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