Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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