A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
