Quotations
Poet
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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