Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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