Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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