Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
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