Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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."
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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"
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
