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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
