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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
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