Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Quotations
Poet
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
