Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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