Quotations
Poet
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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