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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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