Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
