Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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