Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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 are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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