Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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