Quotations
Poet
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- 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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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