Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
