Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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