Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
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