Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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