Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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