Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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