A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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 is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
