The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
