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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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