Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
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"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
