Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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