Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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