Quotations
Poet
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
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