Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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