The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
