Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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 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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
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