The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
