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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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