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
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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