A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
