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
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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