Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
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