Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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