Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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