The poet is a liar who
always speaks the truth.

- Jean Cocteau

Poetry is an echo, asking
a shadow to dance.

- Carl Sandburg

Poets have been mysteriously
silent on the subject of cheese.

- G.K. Chesterton

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder,
with a dash of the dictionary.

- Kahlil Gibran

There's no money in poetry, but then
there's no poetry in money either.

- Robert Graves

Poetry is nearer to
vital truth than history.

- Plato

To have great poets there
must be great audiences too.

- Walt Whitman