Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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