Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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