Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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