Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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 damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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