Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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