Quotations
Poet
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing 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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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