Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
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