Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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