Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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