Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- 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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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