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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
