Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- 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
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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