Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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