Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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