Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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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