Quotations
Poet
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 is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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