Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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