Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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