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
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."
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
