Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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