Quotations
Poet

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

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

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

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

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