Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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