Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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