Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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