Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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