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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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