Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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