Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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