Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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