Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
