Quotations
Poet
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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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