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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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
