At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
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"
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
