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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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