Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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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