Quotations
Poet
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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