Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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