Quotations
Poet
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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