All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
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"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
