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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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 not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
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