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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
