A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
