Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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