Quotations
Poet
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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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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