Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
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
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