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
Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
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
"Dante"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
