Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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