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
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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