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 shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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"
