The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
"Decoded"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
