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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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