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
"Decoded"
Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
