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
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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