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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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