Beautiful Quote by Jane Kenyon

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

The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to…

— Edward Hirsch

“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and served with…

— Alok Mishra

“And feeling, in a poet, is the source Of others' feeling; but they are such liars, And take all colours—like the hands of dyers.”

— George Gordon Byron

“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

— Michelle Geaney

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

“Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the…

— Harley King

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton