Quotations
Poet

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin

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

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda

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