Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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 autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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