Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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