Quotations
Poet
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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