A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Quotations
Poet
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
