Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
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