My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find…

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

— Woody Allen

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance”

— Woody Allen

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is…

— Alice Oswald

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

— William Carlos Williams

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about…

— Mark Van Doren

“The job of the poet—which is somewhat quixotic or Sisyphean—is to express things that one may have sensed or felt but never put into…

— Paul S. Atkins

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible…

— Jean Cocteau

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

— Peter Meinke

“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions…

— Nina Jean Slack

“You are immensely gifted my friend You can find it within you Like I found something within me A few years ago...”

— Avijeet Das

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

— Ben Harper

“Because Poets don't dream of becoming millionaires.”

— Avijeet Das

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with…

— Teju Cole

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its…

— Sharon Olds

“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at…

— Gustave Flaubert