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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
