Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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