Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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 wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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