Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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 are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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