Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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 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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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