Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
