Quotations
Poet
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
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
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