Quotations
Poet
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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