Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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 grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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