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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
