Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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