Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
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
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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
