Quotations
Poet
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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