Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
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