Quotations
Poet
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
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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