Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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