Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- 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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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