Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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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