Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
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 are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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