Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
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
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