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
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
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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