Quotations
Poet
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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