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"
Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
