Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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