Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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