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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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