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
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
