Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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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