To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
