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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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