At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
