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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
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