The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
