Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
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 create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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