Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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