The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
