Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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