Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
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