Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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"
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
