Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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 never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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