Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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