Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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