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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
