Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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