Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Quotations
Poet
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"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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
