Poetry Quote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.”

— Katie Douglas

[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“You want to be a poet and you’re not. By the time you realize you’re not doomed, your life is going to be over…

— Tarryn Fisher

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

— William Shenstone

“You poet boys are dangerous.”

— Nicola Yoon

Poetry is a dangerous gift.

— Grace Aguilar

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings…

— Mark Twain

“We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.”

— Louis Malle

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

— Anonymous

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

— Mary Caroline Richards