Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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