Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
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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