Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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