Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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 must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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