Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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 worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- 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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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