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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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