Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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"
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
