Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
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
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