Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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