Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
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
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
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Note: Your personal data will be used by Simply Knowledge for the purpose of providing you with the Newsletter service, which you have specifically requested.
Your data are safe with Simply Knowledge
Login
Enter your e-mail and password to access account
New Users Register
Register to enjoy the benefits of Simply Knowledge.