Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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