Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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 are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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