Quotations
Poet
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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