Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
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
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
