Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
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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