The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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."
