Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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