Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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