Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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