Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
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"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
