Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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