Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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