Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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