Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
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