Quotations
Poet
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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