Quotations
Poet
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
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