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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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
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