Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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