Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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