Quotations
Poet
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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