Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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