Lawyer Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Do lawyers read poetry?”

— Kestral M. Gaian

“Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

— Clarence Darrow

“Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.”

— Leonard Cohen

“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proof.”

— René Char

“She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to the author's…

— Jane Rule

“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.”

— Joseph McElroy

“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”

— Walt Whitman

“The man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”

— Joseph Hansen

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

“Poetry was a secret vice, and properly so.”

— John Steinbeck

“Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.”

— John Fogarty