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
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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
