Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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 create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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