Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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