Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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