Quotations
Poet
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
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
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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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