To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
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
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
