Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
