Admiration Quote by Jean Cocteau

a poet never feels useful.

— May Sarton

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

— Philip Sidney

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

— Eugenio Montale

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

— Mary Oliver

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

— Philip Neri

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

— Patricia Duncker

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

— Titian