Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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