Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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