To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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 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."
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
