A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
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"
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
