Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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 mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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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