Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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