Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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