Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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