Quotations
Poet
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
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 memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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