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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
