Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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