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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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