I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
