Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
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