Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- 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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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