Quotations
Poet
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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