The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
