Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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
