Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
