A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
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"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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 create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
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."
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
