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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Note: Your personal data will be used by Simply Knowledge for the purpose of providing you with the Newsletter service, which you have specifically requested.
Your data are safe with Simply Knowledge
Login
Enter your e-mail and password to access account
New Users Register
Register to enjoy the benefits of Simply Knowledge.