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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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."
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
