The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
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"
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
