Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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