Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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