Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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