It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
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"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
