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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
