Quotations
Poet

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

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

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry

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

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