Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
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