The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
