Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
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