All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
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"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
