Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
