All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
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"
