Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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