The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
