Art Quote by Jean Cocteau

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and…

— Jean Cocteau

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

“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

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

I had a job once selling encyclopedias, and that was an interesting job because I learned a lot about people's vulnerabilities and how salesmen…

— Jon Voight

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

— William Carlos Williams

“Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all." (The Message of…

— Mark Dever

“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

“He was, in short, a hard-to-please, detail-obsessed, hyper-organized taskmaster and control freak—which made it all the more jarring when he adopted a hands-off approach…

— Seth Davis

“I grasped the who, and that was enough when I didn’t understand the why. What I have learned along the way, and what Job…

— Kasey Van Norman

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude,…

— Anonymous

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

— Peter Meinke

“In his sufferings, Job has learned that God is greater than his theology. This is a truth we all need to learn. We tend…

— Ray C. Stedman

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire…

— Edward Hirsch

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.

— Yvor Winters