Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
