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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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