A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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."
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"
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"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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
