The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
