Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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