Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
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
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