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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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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