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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
