Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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