Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
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 not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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