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"
Quotations
Poet
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
