Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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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