Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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