Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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