Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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