Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
