Quotations
Poet
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 is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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