Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
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
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