Quotations
Poet
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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