Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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