Quotations
Poet
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
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