Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
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
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
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
