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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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