The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
