Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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"
