Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
