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Poetry And Poets Quotes

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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.

Dead Poets Society

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Meaningful Quotes

Don't ever be someone's slogan, because you are poetry.

Beautiful Quotes

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Translation, Translators

But in my experience, poetry speaks to you at first sight or not at all. Like falling in love.

I choose you for a very good reason. You see, I've always known what to say. But you... you always know how to say it.

Beautiful Quotes

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

The only artists I have ever known, who are personally delightful, are bad artists.
Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures.
But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look.
The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write.
The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Henry Wotton

Water falls from the bright air.
It falls like hair.
Falling across a young girl's shoulders.
Water falls.
Making pools in the asphalt.
Dirty mirrors with clouds and buildings inside.
It falls on the roof of my house,
it falls on my mother, and on my hair.
Most people call it rain.

I understood that what I needed to become the first poet of this century is to experience everything in my body. It's no longer enough for me to be one person, I decided to be everyone. I decided to be a genius. I decided to originate the future.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Poetry in translation is like taking a shower with a raincoat on.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

All men are poets at heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beautiful Quotes

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.