Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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