Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
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