Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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