A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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"
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
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"
