Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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