Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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