Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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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