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
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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 never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
