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
"Decoded"
Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
