Quotations
Poet
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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