To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-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"
