A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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"
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
