Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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