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 poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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