Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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