Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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