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
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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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