Quotations
Poet
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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