Quotations
Poet
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
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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