Quotations
Poet
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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