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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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