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"
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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
"Decoded"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
