Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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