Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
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’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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