Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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