Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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
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