The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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"
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"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
