Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
