The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
