Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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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