Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- 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
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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