When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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"
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 wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
