Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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