Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
