Quotations
Poet
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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