A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
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 autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
