Quotations
Poet
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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