Quotations
Poet
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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