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
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
