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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
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