Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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