Quotations
Poet
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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
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