Quotations
Poet

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

-H. L. Mencken

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"

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

-Dejan Stojanović

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

-Derek Walcott

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

When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.

-T. S. Eliot

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

-Marty Rubin

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

-W. H. Auden

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

-Jean Cocteau

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