At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
