Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
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"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
