Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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