Quotations
Poet
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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