To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
