Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
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