Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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