Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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