Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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