The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
