Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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