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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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 is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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