Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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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