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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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