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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
