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 is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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 damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
