Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
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