Quotations
Poet
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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
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