Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
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
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