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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
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"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
