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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
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